Mike Petouhoff

A global engineering and project development firm. Managed sales and project development for a variety of water, facilities, energy and infrastructure projects. Directed a series of large-scale projects to completion on-time and under budget.

• Navigated turn-around of troubled fiber optic broadband infrastructure project. Complex build-out had many scheduling and project management challenges. Engaged the team to re-gain trust of stakeholders and identify project bottlenecks, permitting issues and other barriers to be resolved. Developed a project management template to produce streamlined and more efficient processes.

Architect and leader of company’s 100% renewable energy program to zero-out energy footprint. Established the corporate energy program across all offices, plants and facilities with a team that paid for itself through efficiency savings. Founded Apple Energy LLC, negotiated nearly $3B in commercial energy contracts and through various financial structures, saved more than $600M and improved investment returns. 

• Built large-scale corporate energy programs from the ground-up. Took on responsibility for starting-up Apple’s first energy program. Worked with C-level executives, and board, to establish efficiency and renewable programs for corporate facilities, data centers, retail stores, and manufacturing. Program quickly paid for itself with millions in savings. Founded Apple Energy, LLC.

• Brought Apple, Inc. to the top of US corporate energy rankings. Apple’s status as “the least Greentech company” was a major PR issue. Led a turnaround to reduce Apple’s worldwide carbon footprint from energy to zero. Former harsh critic, Greenpeace, gave Apple top corporate rankings 2014-2017.